What are your headcanon voices for all the skeith husbands? (Skarl, Hagan, Malkus, Gordos, and any others you like)
I'm gonna have to put this under a read more because I prattled on for just a bit longer than I meant to hskdjfh
I love Skarl and Hagan's canon voices from N:TDF. If I had different voices for them in my head before, they don't matter because these ones have permanently overwritten them. We'll likely never get another voice acted piece of Neopets media with Fred Tatasciore and Dwight Schultz voicing the two and it kills me each time I think about it. I'm thankful for the amount of Skarl dialogue and cutscenes we got with him in them, but it's a shame that Hagan got ONE cutscene with dialogue and that was it. I don't know if it's because the team decided that one cutscene that was the first non-news introduction of King Hagan to some Neopets players was all anyone needed*, or if Dwight Schultz was somehow a really expensive guy to get and they were adamant about getting him to be Hagan's VA but it was so costly that they could only get him for a small number of lines. If I ever come across a huge sum of money, I won't say anything, but y'all will know (-cough cough- 5 minute long animated and fully voice acted short of Skarl and Hagan. -cough-) (Fun Fact: I've mentioned it before on this blog but both Fred Tatasciore and Dwight Schultz have voiced Dingodile in the Crash Bandicoot franchise [you could include them both voicing Nemesis Orcs here but they're separate beings and not different instances of the same singular character], and these two have been cast in the same piece of media 44 times! Including but not limited to: Chowder, Invader Zim, Yakuza, MadWorld, and Lego Dimensions.)
I have thought before about "What if something voice acted with well-known VAs were possible again but they couldn't get the TDF cast back?" and while I didn't look into voice actors for every character, I feel like JB Blanc would be a good choice for Skarl (his Kingpin voice from TASM2), both because he could do a voice that isn't exactly like the one Fred Tatasciore did but it's still very close IMO. Especially if you consider they both did Nemesis Olog voices in Middle-earth: Shadow of War. And because it would be amusing to no end for me that King Skarl and Saxton Hale from Team Fortress 2 would share a voice actor.
While still in the realm of N:TDF... going into watching clips a year back, I had known Keith Ferguson voiced Gordos, but at some point, my brain mixed up him with Keith Silverstein, so when I heard Gordos' voice, I was caught pretty off-guard. It's not a bad voice! It's just so far off from what I had in my head by that point that even after listening to his canon voice multiple times, I just can't unstick Keith Silverstein's "MaleCondescending" voice from Skyrim as my headcanon Gordos voice, regardless of if it fits the character or not. ("Do you get to the Money District very often? Oh, what am I saying - of course you don't.")
Malkus Vile: Doug Stone. Listen to him as the Junkyard Man from Pluto or Akio Kawazu from Paranoia Agent (this one is quite a bit longer.) If it were just a lil' bit deeper than these examples, it would be perfect.
Bigsby Shadington: Jacksepticeye. There's just something that when I look at him, I fully expect to hear Seán's voice coming out of that mouth.
Commander Flint: Jon St. John as Axe from DOTA 2.
I'd like to include more like Snargan, but no joke, I've been at this for a few hours because as soon as I get into sifting around voice actors and roles on BTVA and watching clips on Youtube to listen to scenes or even seeking out full episodes of shows to find a character, it's over. I only stopped to get up and make food lmao
(*Small tangent: Does TNT hate Hagan or something? It feels like they made him during the development of TDF for game purposes, introduced him on the site, made a few flash games, and then dropped him. To be fair, quite a lot of site NPCs were made and then immediately forgotten about after they were used for a plot or a flash game, but compared to some of the other land rulers like Princess Amira or King Kelpbeard, Hagan's been pretty neglected on account of not being given much of a speaking role in just about anything post-TDF and any inclusion in a plot comic has been... redrawing him in the background with the same pose and expression multiple times. How many words has he spoken in TVW, anyways?)
